Edward Manning's job is to help localities negotiate with travel agencies to develop into destinations where tourists will protect the culture and environs. You can watch this series (or listen to them as audio podcasts) on our website, https://tosavetheworld.ca/291-can-tourism-be-sustainable . Then discuss by scrolling down a bit to the comments column.

Peter Ward is an expert on extinction events.He and Paul Werbos worry that global warming may calm and stratify the oceans, leading to hydrogen sulphide poisoning. You can watch this series (or listen to them as audio podcasts) on our website, https://tosavetheworld.ca/290-extinction. To discuss, just scroll down a bit.

Gregory Jaczko headed the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Obama. He found that lobbyists' political pressures make it impossible to keep nukes safe.

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The Afghanistan war has changed quickly since the US and Nato troops withdrew. We discuss the likely domination of the Taliban before addressing the NPT review conference.

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Richa Kumar, a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, explains the dilemmas facing farmers and the government alike today; constraints have been built into the market for agricultural products that make suitable (and urgently needed) changes almost impossible to effect.

David Burman is deeply engaged with Drawdown and with the health and land rights of indigenous people. Here he integrates the two lines of thinking with regard to climate change and cultural awareness, leading us through meditative reflections.

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Michel Duguay studies the human genome, and is impressed with the rarity of errors or mutations, yet he worries that in our folly we may use nuclear weapons and destroy it. We talk about the new findings in epigenetics that show how gene expression can be changed by environmental conditions.

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Roald Sagdeev led an organization of scientists in Gorbachev's USSR; Frank von Hippel was his counterpart in the US. Both of them worked together to reduce the risk of nuclear war; they were instrumental in ending the cold war. Here they reminisce with Metta about that historical period.

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Jerome Glenn co-founded and runs The Millennium Project, of which Paul Werbos is a member. It works on identifyng and solving existential threats to humankind. They want a UN agency to coordinate work on the same threats, and discuss two of the most urgent ones.

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Jim Laurie and Phil Bogdonoff work to restore the ecosystems of the planet. Here they show that mixing all kinds of biological organisms in a single pool will enable that pool to purify itself. And they show that restoring beavers, large herbivores, and dung beetles to dried-up terrain restores vitality.